Here's one of the first songs Papa John Phillips wrote shortly after the Mamas and the Papas relocated from Greenwich Village to L.A., but took two years to make it onto a record. He'd seen drunk and/or stoned girls wandering out of the fancy homes in the canyons after some wild parties. Papa John built a state of the art recording studio at his and Michelle's house in the Hollywood Hills, but those sessions didn't go well. A disastrous 1967 concert tour of England started out badly with Mama Cass being arrested on trumped-up charges over an old unpaid hotel bill. That led to discord, backstage shouting matches, cancelled shows, and the group desperately needing time away from work. They never quite fully recovered.
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